Textile Tableland Studio

Textile is a data technology company, with the mission to enable open, accessible, and free information by build open technologies backed by open processes.

Challenge

Much of my work at Textile was on Tableland Studio an open source, permissionless, cloud database built on SQLite. Our mission was to take various console and command line tools and build out a complete web application whilst building the community to use and support Tableland.

Role

As the lead product designer at Textile, I led the introduction and led the user-centred research and UX/UI design practices for the company and for Tableland.

Process

• Engaged with the developer community and reviewed developer feedback
• Introduced user research methods, designed qualitative user research, managed participant recruitment, conducted user interviews and tested product design through prototypes and compiled analysis and recommendations
• Designed the various iterations of the interface and supported integration into front-end development
• Setup analytics and created product design and direction recommendations based on surveys, heatmap and behaviour analysis
• Performed design advocacy and worked to establish user-centred, design thinking

Results

• Led and helped launch the product design of a complete move from Command Line Interface (CLI) to web app GUI
• Presented process, design and findings at international conference in Brussels, Belgium (IPFS Camp 2024).

Mapping and sketching out how to bring the developer experience to a web app

User journey entry points

Key screens showing how a user views a project and uses the in-tool console

Key screens showing how the user navigates and explores data sets